A Green and Pagan Land

<p> British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscapes that suggest more than a mere backdrop of physical features. The myth-inspired writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson Algernon Blackwood Aleister Crowley Lord Dunsany and even Kenneth Grahame's <I>The Wind in the Willows</I> informed later British films and television dramas such as <I>The Owl Service</I> (1969-70) <I>Blood on Satan's Claw</I> (1971) <I>The Wicker Man</I> (1973) <I>Excalibur</I> (1981) and </I>Monty Python and the Holy Grail</I> (1975).</p><p> The author analyzes the evocative language and esthetics of landscapes in literature film television and music and how psycho-geography is used to explore the influence of the past on the present.</p>